Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. IoA Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceded by tea at 15:30 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer. Joint Colloquia with the Cavendish Astrophysics group are on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks at the IoA.

Additional Talks Information

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Wednesday 30 May 2018

Catrina Diener

Clustering of Lya-emitters at 3<z<6 in MUSE-Wide

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Gyuchul Myeong

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Thursday 31 May 2018

Speaker to be confirmed

Title to be confirmed Note different location to usual

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Wendy Freedman (Chicago)

Toward A New Calibration of the Hubble Constant

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)  [details]

Wednesday 06 June 2018

David Marsh

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Lukasz Wyrzykowski

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Thursday 07 June 2018

Speaker to be confirmed

Title to be confirmed

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute  [details]

Elizabeth Stanway (Warwick)

Understanding Intense Star Formation through Observations and Modelling

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)  [details]

Friday 08 June 2018

Chris Nixon (Leicester)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Wednesday 13 June 2018

Tom Comerford

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Tuesday 29 May 2018

Chris Hamilton (DAMTP)

Revisiting relaxation in globular clusters

Series: Informal Lunch Seminars in AFD
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Wednesday 30 May 2018

Ricardo Rattazzi

Title to be confirmed

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences  [details]

Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis

A physicist's spin on data science

Series: Cavendish Physical Society
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,  [details]

Monday 04 June 2018

Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Paul Bushby (Newcastle University)

Magnetic buoyancy instabilities in the solar tachocline

Series: DAMTP Astrophysics Seminar
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Tuesday 05 June 2018

Eugene Vasiliev (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Dynamical evolution of binary supermassive black holes

Series: Informal Lunch Seminars in AFD
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Monday 11 June 2018

Oliver Friedrich (Munich)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Doug Lin (UCSC)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Astrophysics Seminar
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Wednesday 13 June 2018

Antonio Padilla, University of Nottingham

Title to be confirmed

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences  [details]